Bluewater helps Cape Town Save Precious Water During Volvo Ocean Race

Bluewater stepped in to help Volvo Ocean Race save precious drinking water during its visit in December 2017 to the drought-struck South African city. Bluewater water stations turned water considered unsafe to drink into safe, on-demand drinking water, helping visitors to the Race Village avoid using single-use plastic water bottles, most of which end up polluting ocean environments.

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Rhode Islanders are welcoming the Volvo Ocean Race for a three week stop-over sailing extravaganza in Newport from May 8 – 20 as part of the round-the-world race, billed as the ‘Everest’ of yacht racing. Visitors to the Race Village also get to try free drinking water as pure as nature intended from Sweden's Bluewater, which is on a global mission to remove the need for single-use plastic bottles.

As the world celebrates World Water Day, Bluewater, a world leader in innovative water purification technologies, announces a global million dollar urban drinking water scarcity challenge geared to identify and deploy entrepreneurial solutions to tackle clean drinking water issues in mega-cities across the planet.

The theme of the Cape Town Carnival 2018 is “Mother City, Mother Nature”, which makes it totally natural for Bluewater to be supplying those enjoying the fun with water as pure as nature intended – and created resourcefully on site so as to put zero pressure on Cape Town’s municipal water during this time of water scarcity.

Volvo Ocean Race and Bluewater, a world leader in innovating crucial water purification solutions for homes, businesses and public events, have partnered to empower the Race’s ability to deliver visitors at its world-spanning, iconic stopovers with safe on-demand drinking water free of contaminants such as micro-plastics, pesticides, toxic metals and bacteria.